Didn't know where we'd go, just went. Along the Alaska Highway between Whitehorse and Beaver Creek (my hometown). Took the little fishing boat too, just in case there was a tempting lake.
Full story and more images at http://suethomas.ca/20130831_HainesJct-Snag.html
Here's a sampling ...
Christmas Creek along the Alaska Highway
Lunchstop
Overnight
Next day heading home again
No luck fishing, just a pike
On the road Day 3
Coffeebreak
Lunchstop
Full story and more images at http://suethomas.ca/20130831_HainesJct-Snag.html
Here's a sampling ...
Christmas Creek along the Alaska Highway
Lunchstop
Overnight
Next day heading home again
No luck fishing, just a pike
On the road Day 3
Coffeebreak
Lunchstop
profdant139 wrote:
Sue --
The Yukon Tourism folks should pay you to post on rv.net! Could I ask what camera you are using? And do you use a polarizer? Please do not feel pressure to answer these questions. I understand completely if you are reluctant to reveal your secrets -- you are a professional, and each profession has to have its own techniques that are not available to the amateurs.
Thanks,
Dan
Dan, while Steve drives I point the Canon G12 out the window in various directions and push the shutter button. That little camera is amazing at capturing good shots while we move down the road.
When we're stopped, maybe hiking or sightseeing, I use a Canon 7D DSLR usually with a 24-105mm Canon lens. Sometimes switch to the 10-22mm wide angle for landscape. For getting close-up and personal with wildlife I usually use the Canon 100-400mm lens.
I have a polarizer but rarely use it. Even though it is a quality one I don't like how it can reduce the sharpness of an image. So only pull it out when shooting on/through water, but even then, rarely!
The zoom can change this
to this
Those Dall sheep were a long way off and HIGH up on Sheep Mountain in Kluane National Park.
Up close, some of them would look like this:
jefe 4x4 wrote:
Sue,
fine pix of your travels. I smell a little photoshopping in there...
Other than some cropping or straightening (I take many of the pictures out the truck window while DH drives), then reducing the file size for posting and adding the watermark, there is no editing.
Sometimes I think about de-saturating the reds and yellows BUT those ARE the colours, so why change it?
A closeup of the bush behind our campsite this year at Snag Junction.
This the Top of the World Highway outside of Dawson City the first week of September 2012.
In brilliant sunshine the colour is almost painful on the eyes!
Perhaps because we don't smog or pollution filtering the light.
DH says we live in high-definition; it certainly is a photographer's delight!
Even during June
Then there were these characters next to our cabin a couple of weeks ago and all around it this week too, bugling & screeching.
